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    Tom Stoppard

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    Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #gamble #life #life is a #odds #take

    Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #any #change #i #i am #involved

    A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #black #black comedy #comedy #errors #great

    If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #associate #away #continuity #enjoy #enough

    Every exit is an entry somewhere else. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #entry #every #exit #somewhere

    It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #art #hangs #hard #modern #modern art

    In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #behave #between #contradiction #imposed #kind

    My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #i #life #prepared #questions #waiting

    I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #been #coin #i #interested #me

    I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #cooking #film #got #haven #i






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    "I fairly often find I'm with people who forget I don't quite belong in the world we're in" he says. In 2008 Stoppard was voted the number 76 on the Time 100 Time magazine's list of the most influential people in the world. " He acknowledges that he started off "as a language nerd" primarily enjoying linguistic and ideological playfulness feeling early in his career that journalism was far better suited for presaging political change than playwriting.

    Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright knighted in 1997. Themes of human rights censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.

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